Automatically change profile based on context

[deactivated account]

Something for the wishlist -

Example:
  When I log into a "live" machine, I switch my terminator profile to one which has red text, and a slightly different background colour. This reminds me that it is a live machine and prevents me from testing code as if it were my local machine.

Desired Functionality:
  There should be a way to change profiles automatically, either on running of commands like "su" or "ssh", or by the content of last printed line (e.g. mo@mymachine is default profile, but if the line starts with mo@arghlive it should be live profile).

[becatlibra (benjamin-brokenpoet)]

I was looking into a way to script the profile changes as well. I was hoping to have the colors of the session adjusted by a cron job so that at night, I could use different ones. Considered using sed to mod the default profile so that new windows use a different profile however being able to script it to adjust live would be ideal.

[Kejope (kejope)]

Brainstorming:

Set environment variable:
export TERMINATOR_PROFILE=blahblah
terminator

or, to override that:
terminator --profile=blahblah

or, more generally, set environment variable and override parameter for loading a custom config file, instead of the default.

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

However something like this works, it needs to be cross-platform. Poking around inside the environment of other processes is unlikely to work well. If anything we'd be better off signalling through terminal escape codes, but they are very limited in scope and availability.

[Szymon Piszczek (szymon-piszczek)]

Brainstorming:
IMHO it would be more safe to change colors via Your bash / other shell settings on the remote machine -- think what would happen if sometimes You might be forced to use other terminal emulator to ssh... Especially in emergency -- working from other computer than Your pretty workstation...

Some times ago (on uniwersity) I had one .bashrc file with colour of prompt defined in
case `hostname` in
...
esac

manner.

[[e-mail] (anthonyjschulte)]

Hi!

I'm from the future! (We still use terminator in the future)

I made this-- it isn't great, but it does what you want in about the simplest way possible.

https://github.com/GratefulTony/TerminatorHostWatch

It's probably not good for high-security applications since the profile applier is easily fooled.

 echo fooled@you:~; sleep 10